how should you dress in heaven?

That depends on what kind of place heaven is.

Heaven is a lot like earth.

It's amazing we have such a badly thought out non-existent concept of heaven and still want it so bad.

Muslims promise a heaven with lots of sex from lots of virgins.
The Christian heaven is more like a family reunion. It is G rated.

Heaven or Hell?:
You are sitting sit on a couch with grandma, while dad talks about his golf scores.
Everyone is watching TV.

God should require a college degree to get into heaven.
His followers are fairly ignorant,
especially about evolution.

One of the sins of religion is that it makes a heaven seem boring.

Our ideas of heaven are cartoons.

Maybe heaven is just life
extended.

I would like to keep doing what I am doing now.
I would love to work in the good sense: doing projects with capable people.

Does no one disagree with you in heaven?
Does everyone agree that George Bush is/was an asshole?

Does no one disagree in heaven?
Do we agree with every law and every opinion in heaven?

Is Heaven where you can time shift back and forth in your life?

Is Heaven where you get to see all the answers?

Do you become God? In heaven?

Is there an existence conceivable that would be permanently better than earthly existence?
I will miss the thrills of vulnerability, and accidents.

Can we extend moments of bliss eternally and still be human?
We can't do it on earth. What thinks we can do it in heaven?

It's amazing we have such a badly thought out non-existent concept of heaven and still want it so bad.

Maybe it's easier to believe in something as stupid and impossible to conceive as heaven, than to accept that what was once here, and you loved more than anything else, is now gone forever and there is nothing you can do about it.

Answer:
I would like to be nude, but with a much better body.
I want to be loved for my brains.

11 random thoughts about philosophy

1. Understanding the world, having a coherent sophisticated culturally sensitive understanding of the world is strictly optional.
   
2. Reason is not enough:
   reason cannot supply the untestable irrational ideas under which we live most of our lives.
   
3. We need to stop thinking we're making sense all the time.
   We're not.
   
4. I won't listen to the truth from just anybody.
   
5. If philosophy makes sense of the world, what is it about the world that doesn't make sense?
   
6. The world is a set of post-Socratic fragments.
   
7. Most people sleepwalk through life.
   The unexamined life is living.
   
8. For all their fancy words and balanced compound sentences, the sages of the past still couldn't admit they couldn't figure things out.
   
9. Academic philosophy is big ideas considered by proxy.
   
10. Philosophy does not want to change the world.
    (But I do.)
    
11. When I tell people I am writing a philosophy book, it's like telling them I am now laying my own eggs.
    
12. I love it when a DJ plays my kind of music.
    I love it when a philosopher thinks my kind of thoughts.

where do you find new ideas?

There are excellent sites on the Internet where people post new, interesting and creative graphics and artworks — sites like Pixdaus and Ffffound.

So why not a Ffffound for thoughts?
A Ththththoughts, or for IIIIdeas?

This assumes there are new ideas, in the same way there are new works of art or new poems.

• New artworks, new poems and even new comedy skits can exist independently of one another. But new ideas need to relate.
  
• This may in part explain why sites of quotations (like The Quotelady) remain somewhat cloying. After reading twenty or so quotes on love, or risk, one yearns for the clarifying explanation.
  
• An "insight" or an "understanding" are events that take place in a specific person at a specific time. And "idea" or a "truth" are the preexisting situations that are "understood." Perhaps this is why we give ready assent to the proposition that "There is nothing new under the sun," when there are all sorts of new things under the sun, like the Internet, or synthetic music.
  
• In order for an idea to be a "new idea" it must already be accepted by a number of people. In this sense a new idea is like a new community, or a new bloom of algae.

Still, knowing full well that we understand little about humans, societies, life and ourselves, surely there could be a web site of Ununununderstandings.

I could use it.

61 philosophical aphorisms (8/11/07 - 4/11/08)

1. Where do we evolve from here?
   
2. The mind will make sense of anything!
   
3. People become irrational on a moment's notice.
   
4. Reason is both universal and universally circumscribed.
   
5. Nature is our ancestral home.
   
6. Consign it to the flames?
   No, consign it to the structuralists.
   
7. Humans are made for a world that is big.
   We are made for a world where much is unknown.
   
8. What would a non-rational explanation be?
   
9. Books are plastic surgery of the brain.
   
10. Postmodernism is the vessel into which we pour our intuitions regarding the intellectual underpinnings of the present time and our ideas about the course of the future.
    
11. All we have are perspectives.
    You can't be up close and far away at the same time.
    
12. A man's Self is his castle
    (with ramparts).
    
13. The boredom of a philosophy book is its own refutation.
    
14. The aim of a philosophy book is to make you think you understand something profound.
    
15. It is not false that we have a self, but it is equally true we have many selves
    
16. Most people want so desperately to be rational they are willing to offer and accept the most ridiculous argument in order to sound rational.
    
17. The distinction between rational and irrational seems so rational.
    
18. You don't have to think life out.
    You can let life happen.
    
19. We have no words for who we are.
    
20. Life is bearable in many ways.
    
21. The lesson we refuse to learn from history is how just how little we know.
    
22. We need insight into insight.
    
23. Since reason cannot give us the truth, what we really need is not better logic, but better conclusions.
    
24. The golden age, the golden sage.
    
25. Oh the stories we tell ourselves!!
    
26. As we can see a movie or work of art and know it is good without being able to say why it is good, so we can understand a concept of science and see that it is good without being able to say why it is good.
    
27. We are over-determined and under-aware.
    
28. On philosophy, entering into a thicket of prickly egos.
    
29. The fact that something fits into my philosophy does not mean that something only fits into my philosophy. (Quite the opposite.)
    
30. First I must find the questions of greatest philosophical interest, the doors of conception.
    Then, like Mario, I must bounce my head against it.
    
31. Getting to the door is but the first step.
    
32. We must think our way through our the very concepts with which we think.
    
33. We must engage with our own engagement.
    
34. My philosophy book is not a matter of saying what I want to say effectively, but of figuring out what I want to say. It is the blank canvas, the poet facing an empty sheet of paper
    
35. Only a philosopher thinks the world is waiting for a philosophy book.
    
36. What part of \"understanding\" don’t you understand?
    
37. Academic philosophers: the people of the fly-bottle.
    
38. What if Wittgenstein's builders said: \"Why?\"
    
39. Is it easier to understand Heidegger (or Wittgenstein) or to understand the world?
    
40. Reason is a language game.
    
41. The road to philosophical truth is not the road to happiness.
    
42. People talk and talk but only after a while do you see what they are talking about.
    
43. The important question to ask old people:
    In your life, what worked for you?
    
44. Language itself is a storage medium.
    
45. Using metaphors we ambiguate things...
    
46. Philosophy is a mind-field.
    
47. The unexamined question is not worth answering.
    
48. We bleed our monkey thoughts.
    
49. Academic philosophy is where big ideas go to die.
    
50. There is not only the is/ought distinction
    but also the is/experienced distinction.
    
51. When we philosophize, we think and talk in bullshit.
    
52. Every philosophy department should have a course entitled Why the Fuck Should Anyone Study _________?
    
53. The death of ordinary language philosophy would be good if they replaced it with something better.
    But they didn't.
    
54. Philosophers take on difficult problems (or pseudo problems, if you like) but they seldom say anything sensible, let alone profound.
    
55. Do not focus on the truth — focus on the meaning.
    And not only the meaning — consider the encapsulating metaphor.
    
56. If, by approaching a problem in a certain way, or by studying the writings of a certain philosopher, you have not figured anything out in say fifty years, for god's sake, try something new!
    
57. Philosophers in particular need linguistic counseling
    
58. If philosophical question are like chess gambits, the question then becomes: why are we playing this game?
    What is the point here?
    
59. What can philosophers tell us?
    is a sub-question
    of the larger question:
    What can anyone tell us?
    
60. Academic Philosophy: the field of dropped balls.
    
61. The flies are still in the flybottle.
    They like it there. That's where their friends are.